Abstract. Description Logic Programs (DLP) have been described as a description logic (DL) that is in the "expressive intersection" of DL and datalog. This is a very weak...
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) has been advocated as an effective way to deal with today's software complexity. MDE can be seen as an integrative approach combining existing ...
Deductive Databases are coming of age with the emergence of efficient and easy to use systems that support queries, reasoning, and application development on databases through dec...
Processing and analyzing large volumes of data plays an increasingly important role in many domains of scienti c research. High-level language and compiler support for developing ...
Garbage collection yields numerous software engineering benefits, but its quantitative impact on performance remains elusive. One can compare the cost of conservative garbage col...